Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game

Every person that has come in this morning has been talking about the cricket. It's all that matters at the moment.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance